Chesley Sullenberger Civil aviation career How was Chesley Sullenberger involved in Civil aviation careers? Sullenberger was employed by US Airways and its predecessor airlines from 1980 until 2010. What all did he accomplish during these years? In 2007, he became the founder and CEO of Safety Reliability Methods, Inc. (SRM), a firm providing strategic and tactical guidance to enhance organizational safety, performance, and reliability. Did he accomplish anything else? In total, he has more than 40 years and 20,000 hours of flying experience. Did he earn any awards? He has also been involved in a number of accident investigations conducted by the USAF and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Was he involved in anything else? He served as an instructor, Air Line Pilots Association Local Air Safety Chairman, accident investigator, and national technical committee member. What year did he serve as an instructor? I don't know. Is there anything else interesting that happened? Working with NASA scientists, he coauthored a paper on error-inducing contexts in aviation.
Did he do anything else while working with NASA scientists?
Did Chelsey Sullenberger do anything else while working with NASA scientists besides coauthoring a paper on error-inducing contexts in aviation?
Sullenberger was employed by US Airways and its predecessor airlines from 1980 until 2010. (Pacific Southwest Airlines was acquired by US Air, later US Airways, in 1988.) He holds an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate for single and multi-engine airplanes, and a Commercial Pilot Certificate rating in gliders, as well as a flight instructor certificate for airplanes (single, multi-engine, and instrument), and gliders. In total, he has more than 40 years and 20,000 hours of flying experience. In 2007, he became the founder and CEO of Safety Reliability Methods, Inc. (SRM), a firm providing strategic and tactical guidance to enhance organizational safety, performance, and reliability.  He has also been involved in a number of accident investigations conducted by the USAF and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), such as Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 and USAir Flight 1493. He served as an instructor, Air Line Pilots Association Local Air Safety Chairman, accident investigator, and national technical committee member. His safety work for ALPA led to the development of a Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular. He was instrumental in developing and implementing the Crew Resource Management course that is used by US Airways, and he has taught the course to hundreds of airline crew members.  Working with NASA scientists, he coauthored a paper on error-inducing contexts in aviation. He was an air accident investigator for an NTSB inquiry into a major accident at Los Angeles International Airport, which "led to improved airline procedures and training for emergency evacuations of aircraft". Sullenberger has also been studying the psychology behind keeping an airline crew functioning during a crisis.  Sullenberger was active with his union, serving as chairman of a safety committee within the Air Line Pilots Association.  He was a featured speaker for two panels, one on aviation and one on patient safety in medicine, at the High Reliability Organizations (HRO) 2007 International Conference in Deauville, France, from May 29 to 31, 2007. CANNOTANSWER
an air accident investigator for an NTSB inquiry into a major accident at Los Angeles International Airport, which "led to improved airline procedures and training for emergency evacuations of aircraft".
Melba Roy Mouton (1929–1990) was an American mathematician who served as Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called "computers". She served as Head Mathematician for Echo Satellites 1 and 2 before becoming Head Computer Programmer and then Program Production Section Chief at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Biography 
Mouton was born in 1929, in Fairfax, Virginia to Rhodie and Edna Chloe. She graduated from Howard University in 1950 with a master's degree in mathematics, after receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a minor in physics. While at Howard, Mouton was president of the Kelly Miller Chapter of Future Teachers of America and a member of the NAACP, the Mathematics Club, and the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She also was on the Dean's Honor Roll for four years, and was selected for the 1949-1950 Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

She started working for NASA in 1959, after working for the Army Map Service and the Census Bureau. The following year, Echo 1 was put into orbit, and Mouton lead a team of NASA mathematicians (known as "computers") in tracking its orbit. While at Godddard, Mouton was an instructor for a series of seminars on A Programming Language held at Watson Research Labs. In a NASA symposium, she published a paper about the importance of investing in thorough, descriptive program documentation for projects which are to be maintainable over time. She was also prominently featured alongside some of her African American colleagues in an advertisement in the Afro American designed to spotlight NASA's diversity. Mouton received both an Apollo Achievement Award and an Exceptional Performance Award from NASA before she retired in 1973.

Mouton had three children and was married twice, first to Wardell Roy and later to Webster Mouton. She died in Silver Spring, Maryland on June 25, 1990 of a brain tumor at the age of 61.

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20th-century African-American people Charles A. Lundquist (March 26, 1928 - June 3, 2017) was an early NASA scientist and program director. He managed research on satellites and rockets at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. After retirement, Lundquist devoted his time to collecting and documenting early space program history, particularly that surrounding German rocket scientists in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Early life
Lundquist was born March 26, 1928, in Webster, South Dakota, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lundquist. He completed high school early, in the summer of 1945, in order to enlist in the United States military but changed course after the end of World War II. Instead he enrolled at South Dakota State University, where he graduated with a BS in engineering physics. In 1947, during his time in university, Lundquist first saw the Wernher von Braun rocket team's work at an American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago. Lundquist entered graduate school at the University of Kansas. While in Kansas, he met Patricia Richardson, whom he married on November 28, 1951. In 1953, he graduated with a Ph.D. in physics.

Space program career
After graduating, Lundquist worked briefly at Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor of engineering research, working on homing torpedoes in the school's Ordnance Research Lab. In 1954, he was caught up in a sweeping Army draft of civilians who had previously received deferments; Lundquist had received several during his time as a student. He underwent basic training at Fort Bliss before being assigned to the Guided Missile Development Division at Redstone Arsenal; while working at Redstone, he also taught night classes at Athens College. After completing his two years of Army service, Lundquist took up a civilian position at the newly formed Army Ballistic Missile Agency as chief of the Physics and Astrophysics branch. In 1960, he transferred to the new Marshall Space Flight Center, where he worked in the Research Projects Lab. While with NASA, Lundquist was heavily involved with the development of artificial satellites, working on Project Orbiter and, alongside von Braun, Explorer 1.

In 1962, Lundquist moved to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts as an assistant director. Lundquist attributed the move to Fred Lawrence Whipple, whom he worked alongside on satellite tracking. As assistant director, Lundquist coordinated the SAO's scientific investigations while remaining a member of the NASA Group for Lunar Exploration Planning.

Lundquist returned to the MSFC in 1973 to fill the role of director of the Space Sciences Lab, replacing the former director Gerhard B. Heller who had died in an automobile accident. Lundquist was involved with the Skylab and Space Shuttle projects; he also worked on the Consort and Joust series of sounding rockets. As director, Lundquist grew increasingly disappointed with what he saw as NASA's tendency to, rather than evolve old projects, scrap them and begin new one from scratch, and he ultimately retired from the MSFC in 1981.

Post-retirement work
After retiring, Lundquist joined the University of Alabama in Huntsville, filling a number of research roles including Associate Vice President for Research and Director of the Interactive Projects Office. He contributed a large amount of physical research and documents to the school's Salmon Library and Archives; he also recorded a series of oral interviews with early American and German rocket scientists. Lundquist retired from UAH in 2000 but continued to work at the school until his death in 2017, including publishing a book, Transplanted Rocket Pioneers, collating history on German rocket scientists in Huntsville.

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 Charles Lundquist Collection, The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections
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NASA people Walter Jacobi (January 13, 1918 – August 19, 2009) was a rocket scientist and member of the "von Braun rocket group", at Peenemünde (1939–1945) working on the V-2 rockets in World War II.

He was among the scientists to surrender and travel to the United States to provide rocketry expertise via Operation Paperclip. He came to the United States on the first boat, November 16, 1945 with Operation Paperclip and Fort Bliss, Texas (1945–49). He continued his work with the team when they moved to Redstone Arsenal, and he joined Marshall Space Flight Center to work for NASA. He worked on rocket "structure and components." He continued to support the space program and appear at public events until his death.

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 Walter W. Jacobi Collection, The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections

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